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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Dutch steam cutter dredger Draga built at Kinderdijk, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 17 July 1934

An item reported that the Dutch steam cutter dredger Draga a day earlier performed her offical trials on the Lek. She was built by the shipyard of N.V. L. Smit&Zoon’s Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw te Kinderdijk for account of the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij. Another newspaper Nieuwsblad van het Noorden dated 18 July reporting that the L. Smit&Co.’s Internationale Sleepdienst at Rotterdam would tow her towards Venezuela.